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NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts) Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:45 PM Jul 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/opinion/trump-america-election.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

(As one of the chief enablers of republican bullshit, it startled me a bit to see this column of the sad sack sparring partner of Mark Shields on PBS Newshour.....but broken clocks are correct twice a day, so who knows if this means anything...}

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Hell freezing over? A David Brooks Op Ed Title "Donald Trump Hates America" (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Jul 2019 OP

Brooks tends to bend over as the winds blow, but can't quite bring himself NRaleighLiberal Jul 2019 #2

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day COLGATE4 Jul 2019 #4

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1. Isn't this the man who called the Republican party "The party of stupid" during

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:53 PM

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the Bush years?

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2. Brooks tends to bend over as the winds blow, but can't quite bring himself

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:54 PM

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to denounce republicanism in all of its lack of glory.

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3. Can one hope he might finally break from them in a great erudite blaze of glory?

Thu Jul 18, 2019, 11:56 PM

Jul 2019

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4. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

Fri Jul 19, 2019, 12:44 AM

Jul 2019